PIPE ORGAN DESIGN
Evolution of a design:
Orgue Pierre-Béique
Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal
Starting with the original architect's rendering:
Diamond-Schmitt original design
http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/public-private-partnership-to-create-new-montreal-concert-hall-1.847741
I envisioned a more dynamic design for the concert hall:
Original conceptual drawings presented at Diamond-Schmitt offices
by Didier Grassin - Nov 2009
Working from designs prior to the OSM project (Sacred Heart University Chapel, Fairfield, CT; Metropolitan Baptist Church, Largo, MD) came the idea to incorporate the "floating" pipes set in a dramatic sweeping curve. The asymmetrical arrangement and clustering of pipes in the Largo project already anticipates the OSM design:
Sacred Heart University Chapel, Fairfield, CT Washington Metropolitan Baptist Church, Largo, MD
installed Sep 2009 Proposal drawing 2008
A rough model is built to shape the clusterings:
Model (foamcore and wood) created Dec 2009-Jan 2010
From this model, the first computer generated images are produced:
Images computer generated by Casavant
Feb 2010
The architects preferred to extend the patterns of the hall walls behind the facade pipes. A new wooden screen was designed in collaboration with Diamond-Schmitt + Aedifica. A final image is produced placing the organ in the hall for presentation to the OSM:
Image created for the presentation of the project to the OSM
based on Casavant's computer generated images
(by PipeShader and Cicada)
March 2010
The organ in the Maison Symphonique:
